ACTA: The new threat to the net + Sign the petition

Update: 29 January 2012
In days, our petition will be delivered to decision-makers in Brussels -- let's reach 2 million!

Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! --- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good.

ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties -- even prison sentences -- against people they say have harmed their business.

Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. We know they have opposed ACTA before, but some members of Parliament are wavering -- let's give them the push they need to reject the treaty. Sign the petition -- we'll do a spectacular delivery in Brussels when we reach 500,000 signa

In Romania, the government signed it without even knowing what it was. The prime minister said that he didn't know how it got signed... . Priceless, I know.
I don't think there's any chance for this be called off. Only delayed. But that won't last long.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain.
... and since I can remember, I've always been different that others, and I've never been on the majority side.
I am the one and only Master Razor... lost in a world of billions of people.

verdict: get ready for a never-ending game of cats & mice, where mice naturally represent the common internet users, whereas cats may be any and every established (and future) power-player in 'need' of controlling/exploiting their specific playground along with the inhabitants located therein

Originally Posted by D3TR1TUs

It's the Europeans turn now to harass their leaders

its about time too, so many things have been established already, things aimed against free thinking citizens and their liberties, during thousands of years over and over again, it makes one's head spin, but as usual, the majority is always way too slow to react or to stop and think what it means for their future, not to mention way too predictable, which ensures the continuation of such measures with no tangible way of reversing the outcome - this also means that no significant change is possible/doable via group-action (since grouping only leads to new rules & establishments, rigid collective goals that progressively steer away from those that represent each group member goals), the only way out is individualistic focus, each human towards his own vision, where only family & smaller family-like associations can still have significant importance, however, as the group increases and its basis becomes less fundamental, likewise its relevance regarding any of its members necessarily diminishes, becoming less important to support (more utopian to 'survive' without more or less severe enforcement, ie. becomes dystopian in practice), thus unworthy of any serious effort, unless it can guarantee a loose system (a possibility regarding the internet) where the society keeps its paws as far away as possible from strangling the life out of its individual members, from turning them into slaves (or mindless drones) of its own ambition

Originally Posted by Master Razor

In Romania, the government signed it without even knowing what it was. The prime minister said that he didn't know how it got signed... . Priceless, I know.

they know perfectly well what to do and that would be to follow the lead of bigger players, like the EU interests or globalist interests, which ultimately boil down to the same: (increased) global control

Originally Posted by Master Razor

I don't think there's any chance for this be called off. Only delayed. But that won't last long.

correct, it'll be enacted one way or another, forcefully or peacefully, openly or in disguise, directly or indirectly, through the front door or the back door, as a standalone package or a part of a bigger bundle,...

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correct, it'll be enacted one way or another, forcefully or peacefully, openly or in disguise, directly or indirectly, through the front door or the back door, as a standalone package or a part of a bigger bundle,...

Most of the discussions that involved both SOPA, ACTA, and, PIPA involved secret negotiations with the doors to their discussions and with little to no public discussion at all involving either of these. And the thing with ACTA is that it allows internet policies to be pushed through by all the private stake holders without there being any kind of negotiations. Shameful for sure. No transparency and everything done covertly.

"God, from the mount Sinai
whose grey top shall tremble,
He descending, will Himself,
in thunder, lightning, and loud trumpet’s sound,
ordain them laws".

John Milton (1608-1674) in Paradise Lost

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